During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls smoked cigarettes; they wore high heels and sexy clothes. They applied ...
"Wayward Reproductions" breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. It demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what Alys Eve Weinbaum calls 'the race/reproduction bind' - the notion that race is something that is biologically ...
Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the "Negro question" that defined so much of his intellectual life and the "woman question" that engaged writers and feminist activists around him, Next to the Color Line argues that within Du Bois's work is a politics of juxtaposition that connects race, gender, sexuality, and ...
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